Print shows a sentimental scene with children. A young child is running up to two girls and a boy who are spreading out a picnic on the grass under a blossoming fruit tree. The picknickers in the foreground hold up a hand to stop the young child while a maid moves anxiously forward from the background.

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Progressive color proof set (bound as a book or album by the Library). The set begins with an outline print followed by separate prints for each color with interim prints showing how the colors combine for each stage. The last print has the full color result. Representative annotations on a print include: "#1. Magnesia. White. Cad Yellow" and "out."

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Cover label: "No. 2207. Colors. Ida Waugh. Fabronius."

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Title from spine of Library binding. This might be the print called "Interrupted Picnic," which is described as drawn by Ida Waugh in the early 1890s. (Source: The Chromolithographs of Louis Prang by Katharine M. McClinton. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1973, p. 52.)